Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated for dementia research in the last three years.

Government responsibility for delivering dementia research is shared between the Department of Health and Social Care, with research delivered by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR), and the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology, with research delivered via UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), mainly by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Between 2019/2020 and 2021/22 (the last three years of available data), the Government has spent around £236 million on dementia research. Spend for dementia research is calculated retrospectively and is usually finalised around eight months after the end of the financial year, therefore 2021/22 is the most recent year we have full data for.

The Government is strongly committed to supporting research into dementia. We will double funding for dementia research to £160 million per year by 2024/25.